Justin Rose is the defending champion at the Quicken Loans National. (Getty)
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For a $3 entry fee, you get your shot at the top prize of $100,000, but DraftKings is paying out $350K million total in the contest. Second place brings home $10,000 and third $5,000. Over 30,300 entered teams will collect.
The contest gets started at 6 a.m. Eastern on Thursday, July 30, so lineups must be set by then.
The rules are simple: With a fixed salary cap of $50,000, choose 6 golfers you feel have the best chance to do well at the Robert Trent Jones course in Virginia. The better your selected players do on the course, the better your fantasy team does, the more money you make. The idea is to not only pick golfers who can make the birdies and pars, but play the entire 4 rounds. Picking a pro who misses the cut isn’t going to help.
Defending tournament champion Justin Rose ($12,200) is the most expensive player in the field, followed by Rickie Fowler ($11,700) and Jimmy Walker ($11,000). You’ll definitely want at least 1 of them. In fact, my lineup includes both Rose and Walker.
I was able to dedicate almost half of my lineup’s salary to 2 players because there are some bargains to be found this week. I’m not considering tournament host Tiger Woods and his $8,500 cap hit as a bargain. Not with the way he has been playing.
A handful of pros under $8,000 I’d take a look at include Stewart Cink ($7,800), David Lingmerth ($7,800), Andres Romero ($7,700), Ollie Schniederjans ($7,700) and Adam Hadwin ($7,500). All 5 are playing well and Romero tied for 5th, Cink tied for 19th here a year ago.
And if you’re really looking for very inexpensive, potential diamonds in the rough, think about Charles Howell III ($6,500), Vaughn Taylor ($6,400), Ricky Barnes ($6,100), Alex Prugh ($5,900) and Andres Gonzalez ($5,700).
Here’s my lineup for the week:
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